{"id":547545,"date":"2026-03-19T21:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T21:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/547545\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T21:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T21:07:08","slug":"nets-michael-porter-jr-out-multiple-weeks-due-to-hamstring-strain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/547545\/","title":{"rendered":"Nets&#8217; Michael Porter Jr. out multiple weeks due to hamstring strain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/brooklyn-nets\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"brooklyn-nets\" data-league=\"nba\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Brooklyn Nets<\/a> will be without their top scorer for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n<p>An MRI confirmed the diagnosis, and he&#8217;ll be re-evaluated in two to three weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Porter last played on March 10, logging just 22 minutes in a loss against the Detroit Pistons. He finished the game with 19 points on 7-of-14 shooting.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;d since missed four consecutive games leading into Thursday&#8217;s news, although Porter had previously been listed as day-to-day with an ankle injury during that span.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old was traded to Brooklyn from the Denver Nuggets last off-season in exchange for Cameron Johnson. He&#8217;s made the most of the heightened role with the Nets, averaging a career-best 24.2 points, 7.1 rebounds, 3.0 assists and 1.1 steals through 52 appearances.<\/p>\n<p>He ranks 14th in the NBA for scoring, and he is seventh in average three-point makes (3.4), hitting triples on a 36.3 per cent clip.<\/p>\n<p>Porter&#8217;s individual success hasn&#8217;t translated to the Nets, however, as they sit 13th in the Eastern Conference with a 17-52 record entering Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brooklyn Nets will be without their top scorer for the foreseeable future. An MRI confirmed the diagnosis,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-547545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}